VACHAPMAN UNIVERSITY “OLLEGE OF DUCATIONAL STUDIES: Education Specialist Student Teaching Lesson Planning and Delivery Observation Form Teacher Candidate: Edwin Hernandez Date:_ February 12 School Site: Out of District Piacement Setting: Olive Crest Academy Supervisor: Martha OMeara ‘TPEs Observed: No specific TPE was targeted Documentation of Evidence: This class is an out of district placement. Students are bused in from various areas of Orange County and LA county. The class has all boys with emotional issues. The majority live in foster homes. Three are two or three para professionals assisting in the class. For today’s observation, about six of the boys had walked out of the room during instruction time and were playing outside. They did not return for forty- five minutes. Therefore there were only four boys participating in the lesson presented. For the lesson, Mr. Hernandez read two pages from the Harry Potter book.The text was also shown on the Elmo. He did stop the reading several times to asked the students, “Who are the characters in the story and what is the setting?” After reading the selection, they were assessed by writing down the setting and characters. A para professional gave bonus points for attending during this period. | did not see the behavior specialist that was in the room assist in anyway. During the lesson, two of the students got up for a drink and two others were playing with some objects during part of the reading. After the structured lesson, students were allowed to play with box activities. When the students from the playground arrived, there was no structured math period that was organized, Suggestions: Harry Potter is a very ong book that would more appropriately be read maybe after (unch for a “down time” of listening. | would do this type of lesson in a small reading group at the students’ reading ability, Differentiation and structure needs to be implemented in every lesson. See my recommendations below. Teacher Candidate Goal/Focus for Next Observation: You are having great difficulty with class structure and a behavior system that the behavioral staff agrees on and that works for you so that you can teach. Mr. Hernandez and | met with the principal and she is well aware of the problem with the staff disagreeing on classroom structure, which should be lead by Mr, Hernandez. The group of para professionals, the principal, and Mr.Hernandez are meeting this week to agree on the behavior management system to be used in the classroom. l emphasized that he is the teacher of record and that all the support personnel take directions from him, if there is no behavior management plan implemented, he will not be able to teach. ‘My suggestions: 1,Please read over the two books that I gave you with several behavior management ideas and the other items | am sending. 2. Make a plan of your behavior class rules and an individual monitoring plan. | am sending some samples of both, ( Your students are used to you being a t.a. You need to show them that you are now the teacher.Have structure organized and materials prepared ahead of time.) Explain to them how you were first a para professional and now have a new job etc. this might be a job for them in the future etc. Discuss— why we need rules and what happens if we don’t have rules— maybe a thinking map. Then explain the new class rules and individual rules and start implementing them immediately. They will have a choice each day on what reward they want to work for. suggest having different break areas around the room.Get their ideas but possible choices could be a box activity ( you need more activity boxes), listening to music, word search, art project in one corner, drawing cars or cartoons am sending, a puzzle, a rocking type chair (Wal Mart- see picture), silly putty, (see recipe)listening to a story on audio tape or phone. .Ideas When class starts, greet them at the door. Maybe use a quick Jack Harman video on counting to 100 with exercises. Then a calming activity with breathing exercises or calming music followed by behavior standards and then group rotation reading. Plan transitions with a timer. music, etc. 4.Plan_reading differentiated lessons carefully, Use the 1st grade materials you are presently using plus the high frequency word list. For upper groups, try the materials | gave you. 5. Three math differentiated groups need to be organized and a possible schedule change needs to be initiated to provide support. 6.For the next observation, | want a detailed lesson plan ( see previous instructions)sent to me at a minimum of 24 hours before the observation. For every lesson that | observe, | expect you to address specific TPE’s and have the paragraph on that TPE and the artifacts to prove your competency in that area, a 'w 5(nfa? Teacher Candidate Signature: ate University Supervisor/Support Provider Signature Date: o Date/Time of Next Observation; February 26,2020 9:30